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Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by tftp on Monday June 09 2014, @10:30PM
abolishing minimum wage
Minimum wage only reduces employment and/or raises the prices. You cannot legislate that a human becomes more profitable overnight. If someone does not like the offered salary, he is free to walk away.
cancelling climate research
I'm sure the good folks from CRU of University of East Anglia are doing great job already. Why to interfere with the data that they may not like?
banning the teaching of evolution at schools
Reportedly, schools teach nothing anyway. Why then would it make a difference what exactly they are not teaching? (And seriously, knowledge of evolution, or of Divine Creation(tm), makes no difference to anyone except biologists. I, personally, do not benefit from knowing the path from a dinosaur to a chicken. All I need to know is that a chicken is edible :-)
their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
Statistically, it's true. AIDS and such.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 09 2014, @10:40PM
sad human being
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 09 2014, @10:51PM
Yeah for bald assertions!
So informative, so persuasive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 09 2014, @11:05PM
I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter ... so I can wipe my ass with it.
(Score: 1) by compro01 on Monday June 09 2014, @11:09PM
I wouldn't recommend it. Such material is usually printed on cheap paper, which would be decidedly uncomfortable to wipe with.
(Score: 5, Informative) by hemocyanin on Monday June 09 2014, @11:19PM
Bullshit. What about Syphilis? Al Capone died of it. Lots and lots of straight men had their brains rotted by a disease transmitted sexually. Bacteria and viruses just don't care -- they are not capable of caring -- they are only capable of reproduction in favorable environments, some of those environments are sexually related, some straight, some not, and some both ways. To point out HIV like some kind of sign, is sort of like an obese man bitching about people getting fat eating cake, while he stuffs cookies into his mouth.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bob_super on Monday June 09 2014, @11:44PM
To Ncommander and Co., can you think of a slightly better way to present the children of a comment modded down to oblivion/below threshold?
You should probably have a blank/collapsed/hidden placeholder comment, so that the tree of the visible replies still makes logical sense.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday June 10 2014, @08:45AM
Can't you hide them by browsing at a different score level - or have I missed the point again? The children of a comment that has been modded 'down to oblivion' surely make no sense on their own?
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:49PM
There a sometimes some very good things in threads including trolls (or mis-modded comments).
Keeping the tree structure in place while hiding the actual "bad" comment would be a bit more readable than the current version. I can abstract all the "you're dumb" replies, which also make more sense as a structure than dumped to the root of the comment tree.
JMHO.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Angry Jesus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @12:05AM
>> their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
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> Statistically, it's true. AIDS and such.
By that logic straight women should undergo gay-conversion therapy since lesbian sex has the lowest rate of HIV transmission of any type of sex. Only two confirmed cases. [aidsmap.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:15AM
Well your's certainly didn't teach much.
Did you find that out through scientific experimentation, or did your good book tell you it was ok?
You may also like to know that pigs and shellfish are quite edible, maybe even tasty. You should open your mind and have a try.